In this week's Odder News, a military band delights a kindergarten class with songs from cartoons, Russian food might be able to make it in New York, and a Moscow nurse has had enough of this pandemic.

A romantic shoreline walk turned into a romantic ice floe ride in Archangelsk, whisking away a pair of in-love teenagers on a Russian adventure.

Online photos of Moscow tourists on Petersburg landmarks have residents stewing.

Grab your glowsticks: the Moscow region city of Khimki is lit! And unlit... and then lit again.

In which a raccoon is returned safely back home— but not to the habitat you might expect. 

Leave it to Russia to come up with the absolutely most punk-rock way to remove snow. 

Work in the mines, play on the slopes. This is the life of some sun-starved youth in the Arctic. Oh, and they also ski/snowboard off buildings.

One person’s problem becomes another person’s easel. An artist takes on his city’s sidewalk problems with a bit of porcelain creativity. One person can make a difference.

A man in Ufa got help for paying off his debts thanks to a classy photo-shoot.

When the Russian city of Salekhard tried to upgrade its pedestrian crosswalks, crisscrossed chaos ensued.

A bus driver in Kaliningrad has become internet-famous after video surfaced of them changing gears with what looks like a mop.

Hooligans struck a collection of over 200 snowmen in the town of Kaluga, an act of gruesome vandalism.